Calm Parents, Happy Kids by Dr Laura Markham
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Calm Parents, Happy Kids
- The Secrets of Stress-Free Parenting
- By: Dr Laura Markham
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Categories: Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development, Personal Development
Publisher's Summary
Most parenting books focus on changing a child's behaviour, but the truth is that children only change when their relationship with their parents changes.
In Calm Parents, Happy Kids, Dr Laura Markham introduces an approach to parenting that eliminates threats, power struggles and manipulation, in favour of setting limits with empathy and communication.
Bringing together the latest research in brain development with a focus on emotional awareness (for both parents and children), it will appeal to all parents who don’t want to force their children into compliance and lose their temper, but want to keep calm and help their children want to behave.
©2014 Laura Markham, PhD (P)2014 Tantor Audio, Random House Audiobooks
OzzyRach
eye opening view for a parent
loved it, narrator had great character and exclamation of all the right parts.
the information provided was life changing for my interaction with my 3 daughters
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Alex
Good principles but bad practical advice
The underlying messages of this book I believe are sound however the practical examples the author advises you to take are horribly wrong. I quote a section from Chapter 6 where the scenario is a small toddler has thrown their bowl of cereal all over the floor. The author describes the underlying reasons for the child doing this, such as jealousy of another sibling, wanting the full parent’s attention, anger or frustration and the parent should, instead of shouting at the child, identify the real reason for the action (which makes sense). However after this the author then states that you should pick the child up and play with him/her, showering him/her with kisses and affection, thus rewarding the child for unacceptable behaviour. There author doesn’t seem to believe in any form of discipline, but rather using affection to ‘overpower’ any undesired feelings of the child. I disagree with this entirely. Yes, a parent should identify the real reason behind the actions of their child and not just resort with anger and shouting – but rewarding negative behaviour is just something I won’t be doing.
I looked at this book as a follow on from John Medina’s Brain Rules for Baby and am still struggling to find something that is as good!
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